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The “Arena” Looms Large

2018-09-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Media, The Arena 4 comments

This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing

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Does Your City Council Representative Deserve A Raise?

2018-09-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

To tell the truth, we don’t know. We can’t know. All the decisions are made out of the public eye.

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Open Government

2018-09-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents

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The Quest for Continuity

2018-08-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elections, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our

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Hope In One Hand . . .

2018-08-23 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s an article a reader alerted me to, which pretty much sums up the City’s position: Hope is a psychological

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About That Great Wolf Lodge

2018-08-06 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes 9 comments

The poobahs at Great Wolf got hornswoggled into opening one of their hotel water parks in El Paso. Have you

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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Deus Ex Machina Redux

2018-08-02 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

When Representative Dr. Sam Morgan talked about Operational Security and him knowing things that we didn’t know, I hope he

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Mo’ Taxes, Mo’ Problems

2018-07-31 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Taxes 2 comments

If you’re happy with the way things are going at City Hall, you’re not paying attention. The El Paso Times

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